This is for you, somewhere out there, who enjoys music and loves to go to concerts.
This is for you, somewhere out there, who gets excited at concerts and dances and claps.
This is for you, somewhere out there, who starts pondering at concerts – whenever the band animates the crowd to clap rhythmically – why people are not able to hold the tact! Why they get faster after a couple of beats already, bringing the crowd out of synchronization with the band, destroying the precious interaction with the music on stage.

This is for you, somewhere out there, who then starts looking around, and making out one or two other people in your vicinity, holding the beat steady, building a unit of proper rhythm against against the monstrous masses of musical illiteracy. Clapping out of synch with the crowd, proudly, with your head high, no matter how they look at you.

The German Christian Democract Ansgar Heveling wrote the most hilarious guest article, in which he attacks the new generation using the internet, pretending you can either use the internet, or live a real life as a real person. (German link, and commentary on the article on spiegel.de)

“Two large ISPs in the Netherlands have said they will not be blocking subscriber access to The Pirate Bay, as demanded by the Hollywood supported anti-piracy outfit BREIN. T-Mobile and KPN argue that blocking websites is a threat to the open Internet, and suggest that the entertainment industry focuses on new business models instead.” (via torrentfreak)

“Under new consular fees published Thursday, cost of renouncing U.S. citizenship skyrocketed from $0 to $450″. They really want you to stay American citizen, I guess? (NYdailynews)

“Aerospace engineers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have developed a prototype device that could power a pacemaker using vibrations in the chest cavity that are due mainly to heartbeats.” (Source)

FDP at 0%. Hard to fathom that a party which would be voted by 0% of the people is governing this country (German source)

“As FBI and Scotland Yard investigators recently plotted out a strategy for tracking suspects linked to Anonymous, little did they know that members of the group were eavesdropping on their conference call and recording their plans.” (Wired)